Dave Broom retraces an old smuggling trail and discovers why so many brigands got away with pedalling their illicit hooch.
I once killed a horse with whisky.” It was the casual way that John Christie, former blacksmith of Glenlivet, dropped this nugget of information into the conversation that made it so disturbing. The fact that he was eyeing up Starsky and Katie our two Highland ponies while divulging it just heighten...
By Dave Broom
from Issue 7 published on 16/12/1999